Her's Now, and Forever

~ Chapter 13 ~

{ Kamilia's POV }

I woke up earlier than Rose, I looked over to still see her sleeping and I was debating on getting up, but I was the big spoon. I wanted to cuddle her some more but I had a lot of work I had to do, it was about 8 am so I had a couple hours to work.

Spending everyday with Rose is fun, but I've had little time to work on my assignments. I haven't had any in-person classes lately, which I'm thankful for, but I still had work from my online classes. I sighed as I got up out of bed, I tried to move the covers as carefully as possible to make sure Rose didn't wake up. When I got out of bed, I was relieved she was still sleeping peacefully. I tip-toed out of the bedroom and went downstairs to find my laptop, I left my laptop there for the past days. As soon as I was downstairs, I went straight to the couch and sat down, opening my laptop. I logged in and pulled up my work due, it was a lot.

I was hoping as this is my last semester of college that the workload would be smaller, but I was wrong. My major is in Pharmaceuticals, but thankfully I decided to do all my specialty classes in my first few semesters, so my last semester is only filled with electives. I had a couple papers, presentations, and projects due. I decided to work on my criminal justice class first, It was the most boring out of all of them. I opened up a word document and began typing my critical analysis of a famous trial of the Supreme Court, after a while I finished it. Next, I started on some quizzes and other assignments. I moved on to Public Speaking, trying to make my presentation outline to hand in later this week.

 At some point, I just zoned out, completely immersed into my assignments and just trying to finish everything. I didn't know how long time had passed, and I was in the middle of submitting something when I heard someone, I looked up and was met with Rose's worried face,

"Angel, how long have you been down here?" She asked.

"Uhm, since 8 am?" I answered, I didn't think much time passed by at all.

"You do realize it's 12 pm right? Did you eat anything?" She told me and I was shocked, I didn't really feel that hungry though.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't notice. No, I didn't eat anything but it's okay, I really need to get this done." She looked on my screen and sighed.

She placed a hand on my shoulder and kissed me, "Baby you gotta remember to eat, work shouldn't be above taking care of yourself." Before I could say anything, she sighed . . . 

"Give me a moment, I'll cook lunch so you don't starve." 

I kissed her, "Thank you Rose!"

She left to the kitchen and I thought she'd be gone for longer, but she came back quickly, except with no food. 

"I don't have many groceries left, so we're going out for lunch and we're going grocery shopping, you need the fresh air anyways." She began dragging me off the couch.

"HEY WAIT, MY WORK!" She stopped to check to see if anything needed to be saved on my laptop before closing it.

"That's meannnn!" I whined and she laughed.

She picked me up and carried me upstairs, throwing me on the bed. Then, she went to the closet and picked out an outfit for me. It was a white top that had strawberry milk on it and a pink pleated plaid skirt to go with it. I thought it was adorable, she also grabbed some thigh high socks and mary janes to go with it. One thing I loved about Rose was that we both had good style and loved to dress up. 

"I'll be writing a list of what we need downstairs, I want you dressed and ready before I come back upstairs. It should be no problem because you're a good girl right?" She lifted my chin so I was looking up at her, I nodded and then she kissed me before she left. 

I went in the bathroom carrying the clothes she picked out, I put them on the toilet seat and began to brush my teeth, wash my face, do my facial routine, and touch up on my hair. I made sure I put deodorant on and anything else that was necessary. I then began to undress myself, I didn't mind looking at myself in the mirror, I didn't have much body dysmorphia, I was only insecure about my hyperpigmentation around certain parts. I quickly put that aside and put the clothes on. I did a little twirl in front of the mirror and I felt really cute, Rose is so good at making outfits! I walked out the bathroom and laid back on the bed, talking Thea as I waited.

"Is Milk doing alright?" I texted her, I hadn't been going back to my apartment often ever since I've been dating Rose, so me and Thea take care of her together now. 

"Yep, she's doing alright, still the weird cat she is. You should've seen her, she started screaming in the middle of the night and began attacking the wall." 

"You say this like I don't own her, she's weird and I love that about her, we fit each other perfectly. Speaking of her, can I have a picture of my baby?"

I got a photo of Milk, she was laying on her back with her furry tummy exposed. She looked adorable as always with her little paws in the air.

"AWWWW! THANK U THEA!!! I'll call you later today okayyy? Bye bye!" 

"Bye Kamil!" She said and she hung up.

Just then I heard the door open and Rose sat on the bed.

"You're such a good girl for me, also you look adorable in that outfit." She took my hand and kissed it. 

We both got up and headed out the house, we drove to a local diner for lunch. I kept trying to tell Rose it was fine the whole walk there, but she insisted on it. We walked in and sat at one of the booths, I ordered a plate of spaghetti and a glass of water, while Rose ordered lasagna and a cup of green tea. I never tried green tea, I thought it looked cool but the smell scared me away. 

"Tomorrow we're setting rules for you, you can't not take care of yourself Princess." She said and I just sighed.

"I was gonna eat, you just happened to force me before I did." 

"Yeah, yeah, if I didn't drag you out here, you'd work on that laptop all day." She laughed a little and honestly, I couldn't even say anything, she wasn't wrong.

The waitress came back with our food and I began to dig into my spaghetti as soon as she left. It was really good, the noodles weren't too soft or too hard, they were just perfect. There was more than enough sauce and it even had a cute little garnish of parsley on top! It was beautiful . . . until I put my fork in it. Within minutes, I was done and Rose just looked up.

"What happened to 'I'm not hungry'" She said, imitating me and I laughed a little.

Once we were done eating, I stacked the plates up and I was gonna tip until Rose stopped me and said she'd do it. She's always spoiling me and paying for stuff, I felt kinda bad but she told me it's one of her love languages, I'm just not used to being treated like this, but I loved it.

Anyways, we left the store and Rose drove us to the grocery store, I drove the cart as we went down many isles for her grocery list. I wasn't really paying attention, I was pushing the cart by 1 foot, having the other on the bar below and hopping on it every now and then so it would go fast and it felt really cool! I made sure not to bump anyone though. 

"Roseeeee, can we go to the candles? I want a candleeee!" I asked, I really loved candles! They're really relaxing and calming, I tend to pick the sweeter ones, usually candles with dessert flavours. 

"Mhm of course, but after I pick up these last two items." I trailed her again and we went to the dairy isle last, she picked up some butter and heavy whipping cream. 

"Are we done nowww? Can we go to the candles?" She nodded and I was really excited. We walked over to the candle isle and I picked out 4 of them. I picked an apple pie flavor, strawberry cake, pumpkin cupcake marshmallow, and an almond pie one! I quickly checked to make sure I had my wallet on me, and then we went to the next isle, a DIY one! It had a lot of cute things on it! Like bracelet kits, origami kits, painting kits, and the best of all . . . a clay kit! It had a really big amount of clay and it also included paint.

"Rose do you wanna paint clay together? We could make flowers, leaves, hearts, whatever, and then we could let it dry and then paint it!" 

"Yeah, that sounds fun! Do you have time tonight?" She asked, I did most of my assignments in the morning so I probably do.

"Yeah, I just need an hour and then I'll be yours for the night." I said and she smiled, she likes to spend time with me.

I put the clay kit into the cart and we headed to checkout, I began to scan my candles and the clay kit so I could ring it up on my card, once that was paid for, I rang up Rose's groceries. I looked behind me to call her and she wasn't there, that's when I saw her with this random man. He was pale, had black hair, he was tall and buff, he looked like a gym rat. He was wearing a white muscle shirt with black shorts, I didn't like him at all. It only got worse once he opened his mouth.

"You look hot as fuckk, you wanna smash?" He was licking his lips at Rose and I wasn't even her, and I still felt both second hand embarassment and uncomfortable. From the look on my love's face, I could tell it was the same for her.

"One, I don't like men and tw-" She said before he cut her off.

"You just didn't find the right man yet, I can turn you straight with this dick baby." 

I decided to walk over there and stare him in the eye, "She's good, now just some advice, you should go outside and shake a can shouting 'd-deodorant? spare deodorant!' because you sholl need it, smelling like a fucking dumpster while you keep flipping your boxers inside out to keep from washing the shit stains." I made sure I was a little loud just so everyone else around could hear it.

"Who are you?" He asked in a tough voice, trying to tower over me and seem all big and strong. I laughed and replied.

"Her girlfriend." I kissed her in front of his eyes, and took her hand back to our register. I could tell his jaw dropped.